Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1941 — Page 37

AS UNJUSTIFIED

Majority Unfavorable Even Before Defense Work Was Tied Up.

By GEORGE GALLUP

Director, A American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 21— . Regardless of how convinced the . coal strike leaders are as to| the

merits of their case, they have ap- :

.. parently not succeeded in convincing the public that their action in calling the strike was justified. ‘Even when the miners went out on their brief Ne strike in . late | October — before | the dispute had reached an impasse — the majority of voters INSTI throughout the

PUBLY ] the Institute felt : ; that the union grievances did not justify striking. The poll was conducted among a Ee cross-section of all

income groups during the first week in November—shortly after John L. Lewis had called a strike in the captive mines which led to a truce until Nov. 3s. The issue in the poll . was: ' “Do you John L. Lewis was justified in| calling this strike?” The results were:

+ per cent ot 14 per cent unfavorable; and 17 per cent un-

Special Analysis Made

: A special analysis was made of the opinions of skilled, semiskilled and unskilled workers: as a group in the survey. "The re show that while this group was more favorably disposed toward the union side of the case than the rest of the country, nevertheless a slight majority of the worker group expressed the belief

that the strike was not justified.

‘SKILLED, SEMI-SKILLED AND - UNSKILLED WORKERS - COMBINED 1 Think strike was justified. . Think it was not justified. Undecided . ‘Not familiar. with strike

The public's attitude toward the union case is probably ditioned to a large extent by its ¢pinion of John L. Lewis as a labor leader. A poll ‘reported earlier this week

on the simple question, “What is| i

‘your opinion of John L. Lewis?” showed that 70 per cent of the opinions . expressed were unfavori? le, 14 per cent favorable, and the

fremaining voters were undecided or -committal. Those favorable stressed the idea

that “He's a fearless fighter for the working man” and that “His record is good,” while those unfavorable claimed that he has “surrendered the fon’s interest to his personal ambitions,” that he is “stubDor, 5 unreasonable,” and a “scoun-

Division on Closed Shop

Other Institute polls conducted in| recent weeks have shown that the| voters of the country are, by and ‘large, opposed to the closed shop ~~ ‘principle. The exact division of - sentiment, as reported in October, | was 13 per cent in favor, 77 per Qeoided, opposed, and 10 per cent un-

id It is “interesting to observe ‘that while 13 per cent favor the closed shop principle, only 8 per cent in the poll on the captive coal mine . strike think the strike was justified. * The difference is undoubtedly due to the fact that approval of the closed shop in principle does not necessarily mean automatic approval of calling a strike to achieve - that end, particularly if the strike . ties up defense productoin of national emergency.

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